Celebrities count kicks with KickTrak

Keeping track of your baby’s kicks is a simple but potentially lifesaving task. Most doctors suggest that pregnant women keep track of their baby’s kicks in between visits, as a low tech but telling way of measuring the well being of the unborn child. Until recently kick counting was a simple but somewhat tedious chore, requiring you to sit and concentrate with a clock or stopwatch and pad of paper, as you meticulously noted the time of each kick.

With KickTrak ($39.95) that method of keeping track is a thing of the past. KickTrak was developed by an obstetrician and offers women a more convenient way to count kicks. The small portable digital device is used once a day when the baby is most active. With KickTrak, you need only press a button each time you feel the baby move. It records the time of each movement and keeps a record of the session that you can share with your doctor. When you have recorded ten kicks and are through with a session, KickTrak plays a lullaby for you. Count kicks while watching TV, or catching up with your reading on Celebrity Baby Blog. When it is this simple you have no excuse not to keep track. Additionally the KickTrak can be used as a pregnancy countdown, as it tells you the weeks and days left till your due date. When you go into labor, it can also be used to time your contractions.

Celebrities love the convenience of KickTrak. Jennifer Lopez used this device to count kicks when pregnant with her twins, Max and Emme. And most recently Angela Kinsey of NBC’s The Office, hand-wrote a note to the company to tell them how much she enjoyed using her KickTrak to keep track of her daughter’s movements.

I loved using my own KickTrak so much during my recent pregnancy that I shared it with my own doctor, who has since started recommending this device to all her patients.